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Group Members for this page are Suzanne L. Kevin C., Kevin C.,and Thomas K. We have been assigned to The Scottsboro Trial. Lets get to work shall we? http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/SG/SG5.html includes things on the book http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/ has video and other interesting facts http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/trialheroes/essayhorton.html In 1931 nine black men were indicted at Scottsboro, Alabama, on charges of having raped two white women in a train passing through Alabama. In a series of trials the men were found guilty and sentenced to death or to prison terms of 75 to 99 years. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed convictions twice on procedural grounds (that the men's right to counsel had been infringed and that no blacks had served on the grand or trial jury). At the second trial one of the women recanted her previous testimony. The Alabama trial judge set aside the guilty verdict as contrary to the weight of the evidence and ordered a new trial. In 1937 charges against five were dropped and the state agreed to consider parole for the others. Two were paroled in 1944, one in 1951. When the fourth escaped (1948) to Michigan, the state refused to return him to Alabama. In 1976, Alabama pardoned Clarence Norris, who had broken parole and fled the state in 1946. The belief that the case against the “Scottsboro boys” was unproved and that the verdicts were the result of racism caused 1930s liberals and radicals to come to the defense of the youths.
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[|The Scottsboro Boys Trial Site]Has great information on what your looking for
 * This is a political cartoon about The Scottsboro Trial. || The Scottsboro Boys ||
 * It shows the people protesting that the Scottsboro Boys ||  ||
 * not be sentenced to death. People around the world || [|image source (above)] ||
 * protested the trial. || tom.k ||